Corrrection to my previous post – the fixtures are urban, colour series and score. The Tollymore Festival of Orienteering is open for entries. You can enter at https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/tollymore-festival-of-orienteering-overview/ where you will also find information about the weekend (urban, colour series and score + camping + BBQ!).
The Tollymore Festival of Orienteering is open for entries. You can enter at https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/tollymore-festival-of-orienteering-overview/ where you will also find information about the weekend (urban, colour series and score + camping + BBQ!).
Congratulations! Three LVO juniors have been selected to represent the Irish Orienteering Association at the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Belarus this summer. M16 Daniel Earnshaw, W16 Meadow McCauley, M18 Andrew Elwood. Thanks are due to the organisers, planners, coaches, fund-raisers…bun-bakers and cake-stall organisers…, funders (LVO, NIOA, local councils), selectors, mappers, map printers, committee and parents who provided the opportunities for the athletes to reach this level. Well done to all our juniors who have progressed so much this past year. EYOC is for junior athletes from M16/W16 upwards. See here for a full description of the various levels Read More …
Gentle reminder: in preparation for the LVO AGM could you please return any LVO trophies you have to Gordon Stephens, who may be reached at gordon@lvo.org.uk. Thank-you and best wishes for regaining your trophies this year!
NIOA and its associated clubs have been searching for a way to present a unified calendar of fixtures. No universally successful way has been found (the search continues). The most successful approach found to date is “oevents.info”. Here you can see a schedule of all fixtures in NI, level B fixtures in NI and beyond and level A fixtures across the UK. Unfortunately this list is not “mobile-friendly” and the fixture links are to the BOF website (whereas fixture information is usually on the host club’s website). It is, however, a sound source for the schedule as it is driven Read More …
In preparation for the LVO AGM could you please return any LVO trophies you have to Gordon Stephens, either at Sunday’s Score event or by arrangement with Gordon, who may be reached at gordon@lvo.org.uk. Thank-you and best wishes for regaining your trophies this year! (Apologies for reposting this – got the email link wrong 1st time.)
Results are now up on the LVO website for Colour Series 6 at Tyrella. Well done all, especially planner, organiser, other helpers and cake stall!
NIOA have posted information here about pre-registration for NI Colour Series 6 – cut-off for registration is Tuesday 6th November.
Enter Now! Entries close on Sunday 7th October, see here. Before that, this Saturday 6th October is a NI Colour Series at Gortin Glen, see here.
Expectations for JIRC Hannah McMullen (w14 @ 1st JIRCs): ‘Extremely hard and I would struggle.’ Meadow McCauley (w16 @ 3rd JIRC): ‘I felt I had improved over the year and wanted to demonstrate this.’ Rachel Collins (w18 @ 4th JIRC): ‘I was excited for the super friendly competition and wanted to have a clean and injury free enjoyable race.’ Day 1 – Chatsworth House Thoughts Hannah ‘The place was pretty and the weather was fab. The race was challenging but not ridiculous and I was pleased with my run! Dinner was good and breakfast was perfect.’ Hannah finished a fantastic 18th place-keep Read More …